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@SweeperPod "🤝 Only two nations of under one million people (by current population) have ever qualified for a World Cup finals: Iceland - 383726 (2018) Cape Verde - 491337 (2026) All population stats from"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T20:22Z 46.8K followers, 14.4K engagements

"Tiny Cape Verde could become the smallest African nation & the second-smallest worldwide (after Iceland in 2018) to qualify for a World Cup TODAY The Blue Sharks - from an archipelago of half a million people - will qualify if they beat Libya away or with some help from Mauritius v. Cameroon"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-08T08:39Z 46.7K followers, 48.6K engagements

"See you soon Greenland 🔜🤩"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-06T13:07Z 46.8K followers, 5938 engagements

"📺 NEW VIDEO PODCAST 📺 Part 1: International football groundhopping ⚽ OUR GREENLAND ASSIST Insights from the Greenland camp 🍕 Toni Polster's angry outburst Chat with the San Marino coach Part 2: Club football groundhopping Paks' all-Hungarian recruitment policy Fan cards - A hindrance for hoppers 😡 Robbie Keane's touchline meltdowns 💥 Atomic Strike - The power-plant ultras"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T19:30Z 46.8K followers, 9588 engagements

"What an incredible debut MLS season it has been for San Diego FC who are top of the Western Conference as the regular season draws to a close But their closest challengers Vancouver Whitecaps Thomas Mller's new home & the only Canadian club in the Western Conference have a game in hand"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T13:30Z 46.8K followers, 15.6K engagements

"🏆 Nine overseas territories are expected to enter teams into the 2025/26 Coupe de France: French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Mayotte New Caledonia Runion Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Tahiti"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-08-14T14:30Z 46.7K followers, 14.3K engagements

"🏙 The headquarter locations of the six continental football confederations: CONCACAF: Miami CONMEBOL: Luque UEFA: Nyon CAF: 6th of October City AFC: Kuala Lumpur OFC: Auckland"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T15:00Z 46.8K followers, 11.8K engagements

"Thanks in part to South Africa's points deduction for fielding an ineligible player Benin are closing in on a first-ever World Cup finals appearance With one round left to play Benin are two points clear of the South Africans - but still have to face Nigeria who could also overtake them"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-10T18:08Z 46.7K followers, 32.6K engagements

"🌎 What a day of international action lies ahead Greenland at the 2025 Amateur Nations Cup Battle of overseas territories Gibraltar & New Caledonia Cape Verde on brink of World Cup qualification Indonesia against Saudi Arabia in huge AFC clash If you don't like international football you're mad 🤩"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-08T13:30Z 46.7K followers, 15.7K engagements

"Curacao will continue their bid to become the smallest country to ever reach the World Cup (population 155900) when they face Trinidad & Tobago in the 'Islands off the Coast of South America Derby' today. 827km separate the Curaaoan capital of Willemstad & the Trinidadian capital of Port of Spain"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T12:30Z 46.8K followers, 31.3K engagements

"📉 It is a dark time for Montenegrin football both at international and domestic level: ➡ No major tournaments as independent nation ➡ Heavy defeat to Faroe Islands in WC qualifying ➡ 50/55 in the UEFA country coefficient ranking ➡ One of three countries without a team in UEFA group or league phase (&)"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-10T11:30Z 46.7K followers, 121.4K engagements

"All ready for the crucial clash today where Cape Verde could become the second-smallest country to ever qualify for the FIFA World Cup Thanks for the package @TempoSport_EN 🎁 We will be giving away a Cape Verde shirt on an upcoming pod too so stay tuned #ad"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T14:46Z 46.8K followers, 18K engagements

"Timor-Leste a Portuguese-speaking country in south-east Asia often play their home games in Australia when their own stadiums do not meet international criteria. Located 700km away on the other side of the Timor Sea & with a sizeable Timorese community Darwin played host to their game v. the Philippines"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-11T17:00Z 46.8K followers, 29.8K engagements

"So Tom & Principe an island nation off the coast of Gabon & Equatorial Guinea with a quarter of a million inhabitants have won a World Cup qualifier for the first time in XX years Their last such victory came almost a decade ago to the day when they beat Ethiopia on X October 2015"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T16:22Z 46.7K followers, 32.1K engagements

"Remembering the curious case of the Faroe Islands in 2024 when Vkingur Gta almost became champions of the country's top three divisions The Vkingur first team became Faroese champions & the reserves won the second tier (though could not be promoted to the same division as the seniors) but the third team could only finish as third-tier runners-up"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-02T10:04Z 46.7K followers, 23K engagements

"Kazakhstan play host to Liechtenstein in 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying today. It is one of the most extreme big v. small match-ups in UEFA: Liechtenstein at about XXX km would fit into Kazakhstan the largest currently active UEFA nation at 2724900 km more than 17000 times"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-10T14:30Z 46.7K followers, 25.2K engagements

"The Northern Mariana Islands a US Protectorate and AFC member have turned to American President Donald Trump for help in their bid to join FIFA. NMI has thrice been rejected on the grounds it is not sufficiently independent from the US but argues this is unjust as fellow protectorates American Samoa Puerto Rico & US Virgin Islands are FIFA members"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-03T14:30Z 46.7K followers, 15.6K engagements

"Malaysia are in hot water with FIFA for falsifying documentation when registering seven foreign-born players as eligible to play for the country. The FAM stated the grandparents of the players were born in Malaysia when in fact they born in (x3) (x1) (x1) & (x1) - see Map of Birthplaces"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-07T14:00Z 46.8K followers, 43.2K engagements

"Tuvalu are set to return to OFC competition this weekend at the 2025 OFC Futsal Mens Cup in Fiji. They entered an 11-a-side team at the 2023 Pacific Games beating Tonga & the Northern Mariana Islands but losing their opener v. Papua New Guinea by default as their flights were cancelled"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-19T13:00Z 46.7K followers, 5719 engagements

"Its an historic night for the Faroe Islands who have equalled their biggest-ever victory by thrashing Montenegro 4-0 at home in World Cup qualifying The scoring was rounded off by rni Frederiksberg who once combined his semi-pro football career with a job as a frozen pizza salesman"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T20:35Z 46.8K followers, 111.1K engagements

"Precautions have been taken to avoid a repeat of the unsavoury scenes from 2014 when Serbia host Albania in Belgrade tonight. Tickets are only available to certain groups & will be personalised; away fans may not attend; and stadium capacity is being reduced to around 80%"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-11T08:00Z 46.7K followers, 39.4K engagements

"We're big fans of Taiwan updating the scoreboard during their match against Thailand at Taipei Municipal Stadium using Microsoft PowerPoint. The island of Taiwan - officially referred to as Chinese Taipei by FIFA - suffered a heavy 6-1 defeat to their opponents in AFC Cup qualification"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-16T17:00Z 46.8K followers, 5285 engagements

"An intriguing friendly between the national teams of British & French overseas territories takes place today: Gibraltar play host to New Caledonia. It is an away trip of 17500km - across nine time zones - from the Southwest Pacific to Europa Point Stadium from where you can see North Africa"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-08T09:30Z 46.8K followers, 39K engagements

"Crazy Ivory Coast could fail to qualify automatically for the 2026 World Cup without even conceding a single goal in their group. If the African champions draw their final match against Kenya 0-0 and Gabon beat Kenya then it is Gabon who will go through at their expense"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-11T19:00Z 46.8K followers, 21.6K engagements

"🚊 On the train back from Budapest after a great day of football in the Hungarian capital. And that means only one thing: its time for Got a question you want us to answer Stick it in the comments"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-05T18:14Z 46.7K followers, 7672 engagements

"🌎 There are six members of CONCACAF that are not members of FIFA: Bonaire French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Saint Martin Sint Maarten This is because they are not fully independent countries recognised by the United Nations"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T14:30Z 46.8K followers, 42K engagements

"Not only did Austria demolish San Marino by a double-digit margin yesterday - their biggest-ever win - they also achieved another unique feat. Every single outfield member of the starting line-up either assisted or scored at least one goal in the 10-0 victory over the world's lowest-ranked nation"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-10T18:30Z 46.7K followers, 17K engagements

"Argentine club Arsenal de Sarand who were named after the English Arsenal have been relegated for the second time in three seasons. A combination of financial problems controversial leadership & poor sporting performances mean the club will be playing in the third tier next season"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-05T13:30Z 46.7K followers, 12.3K engagements

"It has been a strange October so far for Bulgarian third-tier team Bdin Vidin: 4th October: 2-0 defeat to the Etar reserve team in the league 12th October: 2-1 victory against the Etar senior team in the cup"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-15T19:30Z 46.8K followers, 7234 engagements

"@adarsh_938 Yes. But they are not a debutant"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-12T13:22Z 46.7K followers, 1329 engagements

"Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar have been given the green light by UEFA to play their Conference League home games at the Europa Point Stadium from which you can see the African coast in the distance. That avoids the inconvenience of travelling to Portugal to play their home games which was previously necessary due to geopolitical tensions with Spain"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-04T10:30Z 46.7K followers, 71.4K engagements

"Equatorial Guinea have failed to show up in Malawi for their World Cup qualifying match today due to unforeseen travel complications. It is the latest WC qualifying disaster for the Equatoguineans who have already had points deducted for fielding the ineligible Emilio Nsue in two games"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T17:47Z 46.7K followers, 58.9K engagements

"TransINVEST the football club owned by a logistics company have won the Lithuanian second division & secured their return to the top-flight. At the same time they have unveiled a new 1500-seater stadium at a cost of X million. We hope to check it out in Vilnius this month"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-11T11:30Z 46.8K followers, 46.4K engagements

"The first of the overseas territory teams in the 2025/26 Coupe de France will enter the competition this weekend: AS Saint Pierraise of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. The nine overseas territories expected to be involved are French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Mayotte New Caledonia Runion Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon & Tahiti"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-12T19:07Z 46.7K followers, 10.4K engagements

"There's more action in the Liechtenstein Cup today as Vaduz's B team bid to reach the quarter-finals where Vaduz A team and Vaduz C team await. Vaduz have won a world-record XX domestic cups - the only trophy up for grabs in Liechtenstein which does not have its own league"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-15T13:30Z 46.8K followers, 10.7K engagements

"Real Sociedad's B team could be forcibly relegated from La Liga X Spain's second tier even if they don't finish in the drop zone. The Basque club's first team are currently in the La Liga relegation zone and if they go down they cannot play in the same league as their own reserves"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-07T09:00Z 46.8K followers, 105.4K engagements

"SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE The Faroe Islands have now beaten Czechia who are XX x larger in terms of surface area & XXX x larger in terms of population Having overperformed sensationally at club & international level in recent years the Faroes remain in with a chance of qualifying for the World Cup"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-12T17:54Z 46.8K followers, 161.8K engagements

"Al Hilal & Al Merrikh of Sudan who played in Mauritania's Super D1 last season due to the war at home could now compete in neighbouring Libya The Sudanese FA has approved Al Merrikh to play in Libya's Premier League which starts this month while Al Hilal are still negotiating their own participation"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-08T12:30Z 46.7K followers, 11.9K engagements

"Wow Cape Verde have beaten Cameroon and moved four points clear at the top of their group with two games to go as they chase a first-ever World Cup appearance. The African islanders would be the second-smallest country by population (525000) to ever play at a finals - after Iceland (407000)"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-09T18:05Z 46.8K followers, 132.5K engagements

"🔝 The Nordic nations have some surprising league leaders this season Denmark: AGF Finland: Ilves Norway: Viking Sweden: Mjllby"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-30T11:00Z 46.7K followers, 20.5K engagements

"🌏 The XX members of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC): 🔴 Full members: American Samoa Cook Islands Fiji New Caledonia New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tahiti Tonga Vanuatu 🔵 Associate members: Kiribati Tuvalu"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-15T14:00Z 46.7K followers, 23.6K engagements

"FC Makani a football club in Hawaii are attempting to use Bitcoin as a way to create a fan-owned team in the capital city of Honolulu. They believe the cryptocurrency offers the most stable way to facilitate fan ownership and eventually establish a professional team on the island"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-11T15:00Z 46.8K followers, 28.9K engagements

"🏙 Smallest countries (by current population) to ever reach a World Cup finals: Iceland (383726) CAPE VERDE (491337) Trinidad & Tobago (1328019) NI Northern Ireland (1927855) Slovenia (2130850) Jamaica (2734093) Qatar (2846118) 🏴 Wales (3186581) All population stats from"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T18:25Z 46.8K followers, 77.4K engagements

"St. Paul's United are the champions of Saint Kitts and Nevis after beating Rams Village Superstars in the final - their fifth title in six years. Unusually the final is a best of three decider but St. Paul's United won the first two games so there's no need for the third"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-07T18:00Z 46.7K followers, 6253 engagements

"The final of the 2025 Canadian Championship - a tournament for the three MLS clubs the eight Canadian Premier League clubs & the four semi-pro League1 Canada champions. And it will be a local derby: MLS team Vancouver Whitecaps will face CPL club Vancouver FC with a place in the CONCACAF Champions Cup at stake"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-22T15:00Z 46.8K followers, 11.5K engagements

"@Starkie84 Nope"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T18:31Z 46.8K followers, 3439 engagements

"Mexico's Liga MX has made adaptations to its 2025/26 format in order to accommodate the World Cup for which it is a co-host. It has removed the "Play-In" stage of the Clausura to reduce the number of knockout matches while players will be released to their national teams XXX weeks prior to the start of the tournament"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T20:00Z 46.8K followers, 20.4K engagements

"Cape Verde can become the second-smallest nation in history to qualify for a World Cup finals if they beat Eswatini at home today You can watch the game live & in top quality FOR FREE on FIFA+ (kick-off 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CEST) via the link below or in our Instagram stories 🔗"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T11:18Z 46.8K followers, 471.4K engagements

"Based in Mbeya in the south Tanzania Prisons FC are owned by the Tanzania Prisons Service - but that's not what makes us interested in them Despite their recent struggles they opted to leave some stars on the bench for their game v. Namungo - both Zidane & Messi were left on the bench"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-05T08:00Z 46.7K followers, 14K engagements

"🏴 Eighth-tier Maldon & Tiptree are the lowest tier team to navigate the qualifying rounds & reach the first round of the 2025/26 English FA Cup. Based in Maldon Essex they are the only team to make it all the way from the extra preliminary round to the competition proper"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-12T10:00Z 46.7K followers, 64.1K engagements

"The top scorer for BIIK Shymkent 40-year-old Gulnara Gabelia has taken prolific goalscoring to a new level in the Kazakh women's league this season. She has scored more goals (69) than her league-leading team who represented Kazakhstan in UEFA competition this term has picked up points (68)"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-06T16:30Z 46.7K followers, 23.5K engagements

"10-0 (FT) Sobering. San Marino are demolished by Austria who record their all-time biggest win as Marko Arnautovic breaks their all-time goalscoring record"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T20:52Z 46.7K followers, 10.7K engagements

"NEW EPISODE An episode full of groundhopping adventures watching pod favourites Greenland and San Marino as well as a top-of-the-table clash in Hungary. You can watch/listen to the episode via our pinned post on X or by clicking the link in our profile to find the podcast on Spotify Apple or YouTube"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-15T16:30Z 46.8K followers, 2635 engagements

"Suriname will kick off the third round of their CONCACAF World Cup qualifying campaign v. Panama as they aim to reach a first-ever finals. Suriname are the only one of the three South American nations that play in CONCACAF - the others are Guyana & French Guiana - that can still qualify"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-04T15:00Z 46.7K followers, 6884 engagements

"The Northern Mariana Islands played China in 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification yesterday in what is one of the biggest population disparities in world football. Northern Mariana Islands has 44000 people China has XXX billion. China ran out 10-0 winners"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-07T10:00Z 46.7K followers, 6927 engagements

"The kind of elitist attitude that makes us absolutely despair. There are so many things wrong with it we dont know where to begin"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T06:20Z 46.8K followers, 81K engagements

"There are FIVE UEFA Conference League matches in Poland tonight That's almost one third of ALL games across Europe on Matchday X Dynamo Kyiv v. 🏴 Crystal Palace Jagiellonia Biaystok v. amrun Spartans Lech Pozna v. Rapid Vienna Legia Warsaw v. Samsunspor Rakw Czstochowa v. Universitatea Craiova"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-02T12:44Z 46.7K followers, 67.3K engagements

"Brisbane Roar have become the first A-League club to play a match in the Solomon Islands drawing 1-1 with their national team in a hybrid friendly. The Pacific islanders already have a strong connection to Brisbane: their club in the new OFC Pro League Solomon Kings is the result of a partnership between their FA & Brisbane-based Wynum Wolves"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-05T10:00Z 46.7K followers, 28.1K engagements

"The Andorran Primera Divisi is finally under way meaning that for a short period of two weeks all XX top-flight UEFA leagues are in-season. The start to the season in Andorra had been delayed by an issue with immigration/residency quotas that was affecting player registrations"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-12T11:30Z 46.7K followers, 24.3K engagements

"📍 Ernst Happel Stadion In place for Austria v San Marino 🔜🤩"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T18:01Z 46.8K followers, 4968 engagements

"With both UEFA & CONCACAF rejecting Greenland as a member one possible - but improbable - option would be to join OFC Oceania's confederation. While it might sound ludicrous given its geographical location it is not without precedent: Israel was a member between 1974 & 1992"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-07T15:00Z 46.8K followers, 48.4K engagements

"Shkndija of North Macedonia have been derided online for posting a video of an eagle landing at a stadium in Madrid for their game v. Rayo Vallecano. Spanish fans have been writing that they are in for a shock when they see what it really looks like & that the eagle's droppings will still be there in 2041"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-02T15:00Z 46.7K followers, 45.5K engagements

"🌍 Countries that have qualified for World Cup 2026 but were not at the 2022 tournament: Last appearance 2018: Colombia Egypt Last appearance 2014: Algeria Ivory Coast Last appearance 2010: New Zealand Paraguay South Africa Debutants: Cape Verde Jordan Uzbekistan"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-16T15:30Z 46.8K followers, 14.1K engagements

"The three clubs that will represent overseas territories in the 2025/26 Coupe de France seventh round in mid-November are confirmed: New Caledonia: AS Magenta Tahiti: AS Pirae Mayotte: Bandrl FC"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T09:30Z 46.8K followers, 10.3K engagements

"HISTORIC AMAZING SENSATIONAL CAPE VERDE HAVE BECOME THE SECOND-SMALLEST COUNTRY IN HISTORY (POPULATION 491337) TO QUALIFY FOR A FIFA WORLD CUP They beat Eswatini today amid jubilant scenes in their capital city Praia to finish above five-time African champions Cameroon & qualify for a finals tournament for the first time in their history"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T18:00Z 46.8K followers, 147.7K engagements

"The Marshall Islands have announced that they will be launching the Marshall Islands Soccer League an 11v11 competition in July 2026. It is described as a "pay-to-play opportunity" costing $4500 - a fee that includes accommodation catering & on-island transport but not flights"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-07T10:00Z 46.8K followers, 33K engagements

"New Zealand is reportedly exploring the possibility of partnering with the United States and Fiji to bid for the 2038 World Cup. With Europe Africa & South America to host in 2030 () & Asia in 2034 () FIFA will have to choose from OFC/CONCACAF in 2038"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-26T17:00Z 46.7K followers, 193K engagements

"AS Magenta the New Caledonian club set to represent the territory in the Coupe de France will have home advantage in the seventh round. That means a mainland team will make a journey of almost 17000km each way to New Caledonia the furthest participating territory from Paris"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-03T09:30Z 46.8K followers, 185.3K engagements

"Australia's new second-tier league - called the Championship - is now under way with XX clubs in the inaugural line-up. Which clubs are taking part Which teams are in which groups And will there be promotion & relegation Join us for a deep dive down under THREAD 🧵"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-10T16:33Z 46.8K followers, 44.9K engagements

"🏝 Four island nations have already qualified for the 2026 World Cup: Australia (AFC) Cape Verde (CAF) Japan (AFC) New Zealand (OFC) *Shared island nations (England) not included"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-15T17:30Z 46.8K followers, 16.8K engagements

"Cape Verde will qualify for the World Cup for the first time in their history today if they win against Eswatini or Cameroon fail to beat Angola. The Cape Verdeans would be the smallest African country & the second-smallest worldwide (after Iceland) to ever reach the finals"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T08:30Z 46.8K followers, 51.2K engagements

"Austria Amateurs 5-1 Greenland It was a truly special moment for us tonight as we finally watched the Greenlandic national team a favourite topic on the podcast in action against the Austrian amateur national team in the 2025 Amateur Nations Cup in Ternitz/Neunkirchen. It was a narrowing night for Greenland who held their own early on and levelled the score at 1-1 in the first half. But the game increasingly got away from them ending in a 5-1 defeat. When you cant play competitive football it must be challenging to get any sort of rhythm or continuity. Greenland have been rejected by both"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-06T19:30Z 46.8K followers, 18.4K engagements

"🌍 As it stands four African debutants are on track for 2026 World Cup qualification: Benin Cape Verde Gabon Madagascar"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-12T13:00Z 46.8K followers, 29.5K engagements

"Another big v small giantkilling - this time in AFC Cup qualifying - as India lose to Singapore which is 4477 x smaller in terms of surface area and XXX x smaller in terms of population The result leaves Singapore & Hong Kong joint-top of the group while Bangladesh & India lag behind"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T16:39Z 46.8K followers, 17.6K engagements

"@nocontextfm1 Guys you cropped us out 😅"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-08T19:53Z 46.7K followers, 11.2K engagements

"An intriguing clash takes place in Spain's second tier tonight as the division's only reserve team Real Sociedad B face its only foreign club FC Andorra. The two teams are currently at opposite ends of the table: the Basques are battling relegation while the Andorrans are chasing promotion"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-11T13:00Z 46.7K followers, 21.2K engagements

"An official launch event for the inaugural Championship Australian football's new second tier has taken place in Leichhardt Sydney. The new 16-team league starts on Friday XX October but there will initially be no promotion/relegation - a home & away league with permanent members & long-term viability are required for that"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-27T07:30Z 46.8K followers, 24.5K engagements

"📉 The lowest-ranked nation from each confederation in the FIFA rankings: UEFA: San Marino - XXX CONCACAF: Anguilla - XXX Seychelles - XXX AFC: Guam - XXX OFC: Tonga - XXX Bolivia - 77"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-24T14:00Z 46.7K followers, 9078 engagements

"🏝 Weve been racking our brains but cant think of a closer one"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-12T13:27Z 46.7K followers, 32.9K engagements

"It is possible that four countries with Dutch as an official language qualify for the 2026 World Cup: Netherlands & Belgium Curacao (Constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands) Suriname (Former autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands now independent)"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-12T19:00Z 46.8K followers, 151.5K engagements

"Countries that play in a different geographical football confederation: Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Cyprus French Guiana Georgia Guyana Israel Kazakhstan Russia Suriname Trkiye *Transcontinental countries assigned to the continent where majority of territory is based"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-10T19:00Z 46.7K followers, 17K engagements

"Wow FC Thun were only promoted from Switzerlands Challenge League in the summer and they are already top of the Super League eight games into the season. They are one of only two promoted clubs across Europe that occupy first place in the top league of a UEFA nation - along with ML Vitebsk in Belarus"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-05T21:50Z 46.8K followers, 39.5K engagements

"A new women's football club Monaco United has been founded in the Principality of Monaco - and they are looking for players If you want to play for the club live in beautiful Monaco & train with top UEFA coaches simply visit & fill out the form"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-08-08T14:30Z 46.8K followers, 14.2K engagements

"@AFlorida_man76 Dutch is still one of its official languages as our original post specified"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T13:47Z 46.7K followers, 1832 engagements

"Gabon could qualify for their first-ever World Cup today if they beat Burundi & group leaders Ivory Coast drop points against Kenya. You can watch the game live & in top quality FOR FREE on FIFA+ (kick-off 20:00 GMT / 21:00 CEST) via the link below or in our Instagram stories 🔗"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T14:30Z 46.8K followers, 7940 engagements

"🏝 Niue Island in the Pacific Ocean is starting to play football again & has launched an Instagram for its FA: The tiny island which has fewer than 2000 inhabitants is the smallest place by population that our podcast has ever had a listener in 🤩"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-08-20T18:00Z 46.7K followers, 10.9K engagements

"Colorado Rapids will take on Minnesota United in the MLS tonight - and there will be a special treat in store for the fans at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. On their way out of the stadium they are invited to pick up a bag of home-grown potatoes courtesy of local company Colorado Potatoes"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-09-27T13:30Z 46.8K followers, 14.8K engagements

"1 Three countries have secured their debut FIFA World Cup finals appearance at the 2026 tournament in the USA Canada & Mexico Cape Verde Uzbekistan Jordan Simply sensational 🤩🤩🤩"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T18:09Z 46.8K followers, 95.7K engagements

"The Seychelles Africa's smallest country by population (119878) are the only participating CAF nation without a point in World Cup qualifying. But that could change today: according to reports Gambia's players are on strike over unpaid allowances and could forfeit the match"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T11:30Z 46.8K followers, 34.1K engagements

"Haiti who have not played at a World Cup since 1974 are top of their qualifying group after a win v. Nicaragua which was interrupted for over an hour due to a power outage If they did qualify no Haiti-based fans could travel to the US: they are currently on Trump's travel ban list"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-10T16:00Z 46.8K followers, 53.8K engagements

"The 1938 World Cup is the only time that a country AND one of its overseas territories have both reached the same tournament: Netherlands & Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Another example might join the list if both France & New Caledonia qualify for the 2026 World Cup"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T18:30Z 46.8K followers, 20K engagements

"The Austrian Bundesliga is ditching the format which has seen points divided in half at the end of the regular season since the 2018/19 campaign. The change to the format which has come under widespread criticism in recent years will come into force from the 2026/27 season"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-15T14:30Z 46.8K followers, 19.2K engagements

"The crazy rise and fall of Ecuadorian club Imbabura: 2021: Appointment of 25-year-old former bricklayer Joe Armas as head coach X 2021: Promotion from Serie C X 2023: Promotion from Serie B X 2024: Relegation from Serie A X 2025: Relegation from Serie B"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-15T11:30Z 46.8K followers, 32.1K engagements

"The French overseas territory of New Caledonia have beaten the British overseas territory of Gibraltar in a friendly at Europa Point Stadium. New Caledonia have qualified for the 2026 World Cup inter-confederation play-offs & are aiming to be the second overseas territory to ever reach a finals after Dutch East Indies in 1938"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-08T19:12Z 46.7K followers, 73K engagements

"🏴 The Wales men's Over-70s footballers have become world champions winning a tournament played in humid conditions in Japan. Impressively the Welsh did not concede a single goal en route to the final where they beat a US team full of former MLS pros 2-0"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-05T12:00Z 46.8K followers, 15.3K engagements

"Great Britain has X inhabited overseas territories: Anguilla Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Montserrat Saint Helena Ascension & Tristan da Cunha Turks & Caicos Islands Who thinks they should enter a team into a British cup competition like French territories in the Coupe de France 🏆"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-08-20T12:00Z 46.7K followers, 36.6K engagements

"🌍 Excluding host nation USA who qualified automatically the world's four most populous countries will not be at the 2026 World Cup: India (1.42 billion) China (1.41 billion) Indonesia (284 million) Pakistan (241 million)"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-12T17:30Z 46.8K followers, 44.5K engagements

"🏴 London City Lionesses are the only participant in the English Women's Super League that are not attached to a club with a men's team. They are owned by American businesswoman Michele Kang who also has majority stakes in the women's teams of Washington Spirit & Olympique Lyon"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-06T10:00Z 46.8K followers, 48.1K engagements

"It is a MASSIVE win for Curacao who beat leaders Jamaica to go top of the group at the halfway point of their 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign. If Curacao - an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands - make it they will be the SMALLEST COUNTRY EVER to reach a World Cup (population 155900)"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-11T06:58Z 46.8K followers, 213.6K engagements

"🚗 Yes yes there were four Polish teams in action on home turf in the UEFA Conference League last night but who remembers when four Icelandic clubs all played at home in Reykjavik on XX July 2024. According to our friends @FootRankings it would have taken XX minutes in total to reach all the games by car"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-03T16:00Z 46.7K followers, 33.3K engagements

"What an extraordinary afternoon for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who scored all four goals in Gabon's 4-3 win over Gambia only to then get sent off Gabon can still reach their first-ever World Cup finals - either in top spot if Ivory Coast slip up or via the best runners-up ranking"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-10T15:03Z 46.7K followers, 40.4K engagements

"@JohnValenciacf Our issue is less with the format which definitely has pluses and drawbacks and more with the general attitude from people in big footballing countries towards smaller footballing countries. It just comes across as arrogant and elitist"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T16:43Z 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"The United Arab Emirates will qualify for the World Cup for only the second time & the first time in XX years if they avoid defeat to Qatar today. The UAE competed at the 1990 tournament in Italy but lost all three group games - to West Germany Yugoslavia & Colombia"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T08:00Z 46.8K followers, 24.5K engagements

"Get ready for the Cape Verde hype train 🚂"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T17:57Z 46.8K followers, 8716 engagements

"Former Austrian forward Toni Polster has criticised San Marino: This is a team of pizza bakers not a national team. They have no place in international football. First of all boooo 👎 Secondly we suspect that may have something to do with Marko Arnautovic scoring four times last night & breaking Polsters own all-time goalscoring record for Austria"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-10T08:37Z 46.7K followers, 110.6K engagements

"📧 Shamrock Rovers defender Pico Lopes could be the first-ever player recruited by his national team via LinkedIn to play in a World Cup Lopes was approached by the Cape Verdean federation but could not understand Portuguese & thought it was spam. Fortunately they tried again (in English) and the rest is history 🤩"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T18:37Z 46.8K followers, 352.2K engagements

"🏆 We're calling for a 16-team tournament for European cross-border/exclave/island clubs: FC Andorra Araz-Naxvan PFK FC Kuressaare IFK Mariehamn SC Bastia BV Derry City FC Cagliari Calcio Palermo Calcio FC Vaduz AS Monaco CD Nacional CD Santa Clara San Marino AD Ceuta UD Las Palmas Rules 1) Max. two clubs per country 2) Max. one club per island/exclave 3) Top two divisions of national pyramid only"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-06-27T09:12Z 46.8K followers, 36.7K engagements

"🧑💼 Three former male footballers have become presidents of their country: Ahmed Ben Bella - President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965 George Weah - President of Liberia from 2018 to 2024 Mikheil Kavelashvili - President of Georgia from 2024 to present"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T12:00Z 46.7K followers, 12.1K engagements

"🌍 In Round X of CAF World Cup qualifying XX countries are playing their home game on foreign soil Ethiopia ➡ Central African Republic ➡ Comoros ➡ Djibouti ➡ Sierra Leone ➡ Niger ➡ Burkina Faso Somalia ➡ Algeria Gambia ➡ Seychelles ➡ Sudan ➡ Tanzania Lesotho ➡ Sao Tom & Principe ➡ Zimbabwe ➡"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T16:00Z 46.8K followers, 7411 engagements

"🔟 There have been two victories by 10-goal margins in European qualification for the 2026 World Cup: Norway 11-1 Moldova Austria 10-0 San Marino The record margin of victory remains Germany 12-0 back in 1969"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T13:30Z 46.8K followers, 7349 engagements

"Today we are going to see the Greenland national team live for the first time ever Morten Rutkjr's men are taking part in the 2025 Amateur Nations Cup - along with the Austria Bosnia & Herzegovina and Slovenia amateur national teams - in three venues around one hour south of Vienna"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-06T08:19Z 46.7K followers, 36.4K engagements

"For the first time since their first-ever competitive victory v Liechtenstein in September 2024 we will be watching our beloved San Marino live tonight. They face Austria away in a World Cup qualifier. Greenland AND San Marino live in the space of one week What a treat 🤩"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T08:22Z 46.7K followers, 15.3K engagements

"Kosovo remain Unofficial World Champions - and in with a chance of qualifying for the World Cup - after completing a double over Sweden The worlds second-newest country is on its best run of form since joining FIFA & UEFA: Kosovo have won XX of their last XX matches (one draw two defeats)"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-13T20:48Z 46.8K followers, 47.6K engagements

"🏆 Historically four Lusophone countries have qualified for the FIFA World Cup: Brazil (22 appearances) Portugal (8 appearances) Angola (2006) Cape Verde (2026) For those that don't know Lusophone just means Portuguese-speaking 🗣"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-15T11:30Z 46.8K followers, 73.7K engagements

"Heidelberg United have the chance to become the first non-A League club to win the Australian Cup in the final v. Newcastle Jets this weekend The Heidelberg players had initially booked a trip to Bali but pulled out after reaching the final & sold their tickets to fellow Melbourne club Avondale FC"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-03T17:30Z 46.8K followers, 28.1K engagements

"Despite being rock-bottom of the Canadian Premier League Vancouver FC have qualified for the CONCACAF Champions Cup They lost the Canadian Championship final to Vancouver Whitecaps who qualified for the Champions Cup via the MLS so their continental spot passes to Vancouver FC as runners-up"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-15T10:12Z 46.8K followers, 65.4K engagements

"Thanks in part to a points deduction for South Africa Benin could qualify for their first-ever World Cup if they beat neighbours Nigeria today. You can watch the game live & in top quality FOR FREE on FIFA+ (kick-off 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CEST) via the link below or in our Instagram stories 🔗"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-14T10:30Z 46.8K followers, 17.5K engagements

"🏟❌ The Asian Football Confederation this summer banned artificial pitches which is set to affect numerous national teams in upcoming AFC Asian Cup qualifying matches. Nepal cannot play at their Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu while Bhutan's iconic Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu does not fulfil the criteria either"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-03T19:00Z 46.7K followers, 58.9K engagements

"Its a huge huge Asian Cup qualifying win for Hong Kong who were pegged back by Bangladesh in the 99th minute but hit back to win in the 101st Hong Cup have qualified for the Asian Cup only once since 1968 - the most recent edition in 2023 when they lost all three of their group games"
X Link @SweeperPod 2025-10-09T16:26Z 46.7K followers, 31K engagements